Tillandsia Marvelous Masterpiece
Tillandsia 'Marvelous Masterpiece' is an attractive hybrid cultivar of unknown parentage, known for its striking appearance and intense coloration. This variety is particularly popular among collectors and design enthusiasts and is often cultivated as a decorative centerpiece.
Characteristics:
Tillandsia 'Marvelous Masterpiece' forms robust, rosette-shaped plants with broad, slightly curved, gray-green to reddish-tipped leaves. During flowering, the heart of the plant turns an intense red to violet – a striking contrast to the long, slender, blue-violet tubular flowers. The plant regularly produces offsets after flowering.
Care Instructions:
Light: Very bright to semi-shady – some direct sunlight promotes intense coloration.
Water: Spray 2–3 times a week or occasionally soak. Let it dry well afterward.
Humidity: Medium to high (50–70%) – good air movement is important. Fertilizer: In spring and summer, 1–2 times a month with our special Tillandsia or orchid fertilizer in diluted form.
Temperature: 18–30 °C – sensitive to waterlogging and cold, keep frost-free.
Note: Due to its intense heart coloration, Tillandsia 'Marvelous Masterpiece' is particularly suitable for modern arrangements, design objects, or as a color accent in airy plant compositions.
Our greenhouses are equipped with modern energy screens and double glazing to efficiently save on heating costs. Additionally, we collect rainwater over the entire roof area of 9,000 square meters and use only this water to irrigate all our crops. We collect the rainwater in underground tanks with a total volume of 600,000 liters.
Since 2007, we have been heating our entire operation with a fully automated 850 kW wood chip heating system and a 100,000-liter buffer storage tank. Environmentally friendly and CO2-neutral. Only to support during very cold winter days and nights is a conventional oil heating system available.
Since 2014, the heating has been supported by a solar thermal system with an annual yield of about 20 megawatt-hours.
In 2020, we installed a photovoltaic system with 30 kW peak and have been producing more green electricity per year than our entire operation requires.
Since 2021, we use exclusively pots for our self-produced plants that are not only 100% recyclable but are also entirely made from recycled pots. To this end, we collect all used pots that arise in our operation and have them picked up in big bags by our pot supplier Göttinger. There, the pots are cleaned and processed in a water-free recycling facility into new pots that come back to us.
